Interpol unveil ‘The Rover’ from new album ‘Marauder’ and announce world tour

Interpol have announced details of their long-awaited sixth album ‘Marauder’ with new single ‘The Rover’, along with 2018 world tour dates. Check out the track, along with tour and ticket details below.

‘Marauder’ will arrive via Matador Records on August 24, the “visceral” and “rock n’ roll” follow-up to 2014’s acclaimed ‘El Pintor‘ was written in Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ rehearsal space in Manhattan before being recorded at Tarbox Studios with Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, MGMT, Spoon, Mogwai and more).

“This record is where I feel touching on real things that have happened to me are exciting and evocative to write about,” said frontman Paul Banks of the album. “I think in the past, I always felt autobiography was too small a thing for me to reference. I feel like now, I’m able to romanticise parts of my own life.”

He added: “’Marauder ‘is a facet of myself. That’s the guy that fucks up friendships and does crazy shit. He taught me a lot, but it’s representative of a persona that’s best left in song. In a way, this album is like giving him a name and putting him to bed.”

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Unmistakable Daniel Kessler fretmanship and Sam Fogarino’s kraut-influenced beats introduce the single with the immediacy that found them fame on ‘Antics’, before Banks arrives with a vocal bursting with compulsion – sounding like an enraged drifter on prowl: “Maybe it’s time, you can’t stick to the highways, it’s suicide.“

“I’m welling up with excitement again – it makes me love you, you need to tell your friends,” he continues. Amen. They remain on form. ‘The Rover’ is a track without relent. A rush of dark rock n’ roll from returning masters – never living slowly and still as devious as ever.

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The band’s upcoming 2018 world tour dates are below, with UK dates including TRNSMT Festival, supporting The Cure at British Summer time in London this month, as well as headlining London’s Royal Albert Hall in November. Tickets will be available here.